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This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art. With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the Cote d'Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life. The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the
international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries
of people who must make their way in the world without any place to
call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home
is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about
Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for
more than half a century.
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